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CLARKSVILLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM
CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE
Job Description
Job Title: Middle School Principal Department: Instruction
Job Description
Review Date: February 2023 Reports to: Director of Middle Schools
Grade: 508B
Days Per Year: 220
Purpose of Position:
The purpose of this position is to provide overall leadership, management, and supervision of the appointed school.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
The following duties are normal for this job. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.
- Provide leadership in the improvement of the total educational program within the school.
- Oversee the school buildings and grounds and be responsible for their proper care.
- Prepare the preliminary budget requests for the school.
- Assign teachers and students to subjects and grades.
- Prepare all statistical and other reports relative to such matters as attendance, enrollment figures and reports as required by the Director of Schools.
- Interview prospective applicants and assign teachers extra duties.
- Provide for working conditions and attitudes conducive to good school work on the part of students and staff.
- Fosters shared beliefs and a sense of community cooperation.
- Cooperate with administrative, supervisory and other personnel and facilitate the accomplishment of the strategic work of the district.
- Ensures teachers and staff are aware of the most current theories and practices and makes the study and implementation of these a regular aspect of the school’s culture.
- Monitors appropriate use of school buildings by the community.
- Create a safe and nurturing environment for all students.
- Provides conceptual guidance for teachers regarding effective classroom practice.
- Monitors the effectiveness of school practices and their impact on student learning.
- Provide visionary leadership that integrates all legal mandates and stakeholder needs.
- Ensure board and school policies are followed.
- Visit classrooms in a systematic and frequent manner, observe, and evaluate teachers.
- Create professional and collegial learning communities for faculty and staff.
- Develop, train, and provide opportunities for assistant principals to be instructional leaders.
Minimum Education and Experience Required to Perform Essential Position Functions:
- Master’s degree with valid Tennessee teaching certification with administrator K-12 endorsement.
- Minimum three years successful classroom teaching experience, preferably in secondary.
KNOWLEDGE OF JOB
Ability to communicate both orally and in written form to communities, supervisors and employees. Ability to use high-level interpersonal skills in order to maintain effective relationships. Possess skills related to problem-solving, planning, supervising, organizing and scheduling. Ability to handle highly sensitive personnel matters in a timely and professional manner. Ability to assume administrative responsibility, plan, assign and supervise and review work of employees.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
REQUIRED SKILLS, ABILITIES AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be able to do occasional lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of up to 40 pounds, standing, sitting, walking, bending, stooping or kneeling;
- Must be able to traverse school facility;
- Must have significant fine finger dexterity;
- Must be able to operate standard office equipment including pertinent and required software applications;
- Must possess excellent language skills (verbal and written) requiring the ability to read informational documentation, directions, instructions, policies and procedures related to this job, requiring the ability to give assignments and/or directions to co-workers, assistants, supervisors, students and parents/guardians, requiring the ability to deliver verbal and written communications in English language;
- Must possess excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact with people (staff, supervisors, parents/guardians, students) and maintain professionalism and tact in all situations, including emergent ones, must be able to maintain constructive relationships;
- Must possess excellent organizational skills and attention to detail;
- Must be able to perform multiple, highly complex, technical tasks with periodic need to enhance skills in order to meet changing job conditions.
- Must be able to apply assessment instruments and analyze data and possess problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to make independent judgments in absence of supervision.
NUMERICAL APTITUDE: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; add and subtract totals; multiply and divide; determine percentages; determine time and weight.
FORM/SPATIAL APTITUDE: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape, visually.
PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear: (talking - expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words). (Hearing - perceiving nature of sounds by ear).
ATTENDANCE: A regular and dependable level of attendance is an essential function for this position.
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the school system may provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer. Signatures below indicate the receipt and review of this job description by the employee assigned to the job and the immediate supervisor.